Time Capsule Restore on New Mac Mini

[ParishM]

i did a last minute backup before i sold my late 07
Mini last weak and I was a little apprehensive about
how well the restore would work on the new 2.53
mini.

Well I can now say I am very impressed, i turned
on the new Mini and it asked if i wanted to restore
and gave me a few options. i chose the TC and it
was off and running, it took about 2hrs. when
it finished it was like i was still using the old Mini,
a perfect image clone. all my email, pictures,
docs, etc. were there just like i left them.

so for those who have never done a restore you
have nothing to worry about (as long as your TC
doesn't crap out first LOL)

 

[mercuryguy]

so did you install the old leopard and erase the new snow-leopard?

 

[ParishM]

no it restored everything from Leopard onto Snow Leopard purfectly.

 

[mercuryguy]

but you could have also restored the OS too with time machine along with data, right?
Sorry if this is basic, I am new to mac.

 

[reebzor]

but you could have also restored the OS too with time machine along with data, right?
Sorry if this is basic, I am new to mac.

you would need to boot to a leopard disk first. Time machine backs up files, not the operating system.

 

[ParishM]

yes i believe if the new mini had a blank drive it would have
restored it with Leopard but the new mini had 10.6 so it took
all my info and files and imported them into snow leopard.

 

[reebzor]

yes i believe if the new mini had a blank drive it would have
restored it with Leopard but the new mini had 10.6 so it took
all my info and files and imported them into snow leopard.

Kind of but not really. If the Mini had a blank drive, you would need to boot to something (i.e. Leopard disk, SL disk) which ever disk you booted to, it would install that OS.

 

[ParishM]

i understand, at first i thought it was like the windoze program
"ghost" that created an image of your drive but when it installed
all my files into snow leopard i realized it wasn't.

it still works great no matter how it does it

 

[cc1995]

I also have a question regarding migrating. I just bought a new 20 inch Imac with a ATI Dedicated Graphics card with Snow Leopard. It comes with Ilife 08 though. The computer I'm replacing had Ilife 09 on it which I had bought but no longer have the install disc for...I cracked it with my rolling chair. I made a clone of my old computer on and external drive with Superduper so that I could migrate all my information to the new machine. Here's my question. Can I migrated the program Ilife 09 off of my old computer from the clone to my new computer, and can I do this without migrating Leopard over from the old system onto my new system that has Snow Leopard?